Overview
As well as Europe, Brake also worked in the Middle East early in his career.
In 1956, Brake and his partner, writer Nigel Cameron, embarked on a world trip with the idea of collaborating on magazine articles. The Middle East was their first stop on their way to Asia.
Cameron later wrote a book about the trip called To the East a Phoenix, while Brake’s photographs appeared in a National Geographic article on Aden, and an Illustrated magazine story on the medical treatment of a girl who fell down a well. He returned to the region on later assignments.